I Really Should Have Stayed Home: The Worst Journeys from Harare to Eternity (Travel Literature Series)

By Kent Ford

"Looking forward to your summer rental? Think again."- Publisher's Weekly Book of The Day "A funny and insightful book that reminds all travelers that sometimes worst-case scenarios do come true. While all relate nightmare trips abroad, each is told with a sense of humor that ultimately transforms the nightmare into a useful lesson for us all." - Santa Cruz Sentinel Rapoport's anthology goes straight for the belly laugh. - St. Petersburg Times "What makes this collection so appealing is the ordinariness of the victims."- New York Times This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571430814
• ISBN13: 9781571430816
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Rdr Books
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 2.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.8" x 1.0" x 5.0"

Customer Reviews

Great read

I found almost all of the short stories entertaining and well written. Each story is only a few pages long, so the occasional clunker (like the family that took a short canyon hike without water) does not seriously impair the flow of the book.